CaseFormation1989
Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ, USA
Three positioned lights brightly moving slowly east over south rim of the Grand Canyon almost dark.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-12-01
- Where
- Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.054, -112.139 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-grand-canyon-north-rim-az-1989-94ace5
Wave
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 13 reports from Arizona.
- The 1980s skewed 2.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.